| Show 1 11 tie work of id incorporating the io 01 a of bountiful has aw not been completed vt vet irmay it may nol be out of place for the C to say something more on iu tin th subject it cems that there are some ome who are still opposed to incorporating but such persons would surely become more favorable tf if ibel understood lit fill the advantages 0 cs ir ill davit alien a lonu of govern in cut liest best way to bring out tile c advant adges 12 would be by appointing 0 persons who are arc posted on oil incorporated towns all and let them hold bold discussion sin the opera house or some other public place and invite the people to hear them an important thing thing t of this kind should be well unberto under understood to od by the people before measures inua burca are arc taken there are some differences in regard to the expense of city 1 cities are classed ace according to the number ofin of inhabitants they have inhabitants makes a city of the first class and has a mayor and fifteen counci lors over five and less than ten thou thousand band a city of the second class and has a mayor and ten tell counci lors all cities with less jess than inhabitants are cities of the third class and are entitled to a mayor and seven councilors councillors counci lors of course the fewer officers there are the less legs wages there ni will ill have to be paid out another form of city government we have not spoken on that is one where the people elect a board of trustees to transact the city business this is called a town incorporation this is perhaps the simplest form of city govern government went it is more limited in its range of action but can attend to all city affairs this board is empowered to hire city officers which they do by employing c tile the lowest responsible bidders f for or the office this thia differs from a city government in that tile the people do not vote directly for some of the city officers as is marshals etc in conversation with attorney wm win i buys of heber learned that i that city has a town incorporation he says that the tawn board cn I 1 1 gages officers for fora a certain genatt length of time at certain wages Z lie he further stated that when hands were scarce they had to pay more for officers than when there was not much employment a as for example last year they paid the alie city marshal ninety dollars a month this year only five and less in the winter than in the summer in case buiere is not enough to do to to keep the marshal employed they add other offices that could go together ile he said that their mars marshal lial was I 1 tilso 1 so water master and road su I 1 jervis r and in ill case lie he lad bad more business ban he could attend to lie ile employs I 1 deputies leput ies to assist thus not having my idle officers employed mr bir I 1 luys luya said their city had been very r inch auch improved since they had bad this I 1 ind of a and thattie that the i a eople cople had never been taxed one ent to run it an and I 1 that at present rf bere iere was money in the treasury e thought tiey would change to a ty form of government in the t lie 0 near t k iture I 1 4 let us consider these different and then decide on one of y em cm |
